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Tihomir Preradović
Birth nameTihomir Preradović
Born6th April 1960
Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
OriginZagreb, Croatia
GenresPop-Rock
Occupation(s)Music producer, composer
Years active1974–present

Tihomir Preradović (born April 6, 1960) is an award winning Croatian music producer and composer. He is the owner of Apollo Music Production and during his career Preradović collaborated with some of the biggest musical artist from

Balkan region such as Arsen Dedić, Toše Proeski, Kaliopi, Severina, Tanja Žagar, Kaliopi, etc. Preradović is also the author of numeorus Croatian, regional and international commercials for the likes of Lidl, Kraš, Franck
, etc.

Early Life

Born in the city center of Zagreb, Preradović displayed interest for music in preschool, often entertaining people in his household by playing an air guitar and singing popular songs from the radio. After finishing first grade of elementary school in 1967, he receives his first acoustic guitar as a gift from his parents. Soon after he is the lead performer in a school, where he plays and sings Yellow Submarine by The Beatles, with the backing of school colleagues playing cardboard guitars. In fifth grade he moves to Novi Zagreb where he, with his friends from class, forms a band Titanik which only never played or performed together. Preradović soon joined band Pupak which was formed by bass guitar player

PGP RTB and Aleksandar Pilipenko who liked the album and decided to release it. The album was suppose to be released in the fall of 1987 however, Preradović and Filipović decided that too long had passed between the recording and release with the band member going their separate ways. Despite this, some songs were played on the radio, with the song “Tri boje na nebu” reaching first place on Zlatko Turkalj’s chart on the RVG (Radio Velika Gorica) which was, at the time, most popular radio station. As the band members decide to go their own separate ways, Filipović leaves the band with Preradović staying in the band for a little while. Homo Kiborg’s last concert was in 1988 in the sports hall Velika Gorica, as the guests in the show program of NAVIS. At this concert, in the brass section, Bruno Kovačević (playing the alto saxophone) joined the band. Also, during the 80s’, Preradović played in the first teen group in Yugoslavia, Prva Ljubav
.

1990s’

During the late 80s’, shortly after finishing the album for his band Homo Kiborg, Preradović starts working as a sound mixer and soon starts to produce studio albums for bands such as Motus, Phantasmagoria, Sin Albert, Tamnichars, Studeni Studeni and others. He starts working with Vladimir Delač who offered Preradović to collaborate on his projects, with Preradović writing, arranging for other performers with whom Delač collaborated. Around that time, Preradović meets

Divas, Davor Radolfi and others). With Zrinko Tutić, Preradović also works on arrangements and production for film music for films When the Dead Start Singing and Garcia. In 1992, Preradović writes music for film director Tihomir Žarn’s short film “Paranoia?” (film in which Goran Višnjić had his first movie role). Preradović also worked on a movie How the War Started on My Island with Mate Matišić. Between the late 80s’ and early 90s’, Preradović started collaborating with Arsen Dedić. With Dedić, Preradović worked on a few dozen theatre pieces, on music for the series Jedrima oko svijeta which was broadcast on Discovery Channel, as well as on several documentaries, animated movies and films. In 1994, Preradović meets Jurica Šiško (Jury de Simbo) who arrives with an idea of making a humorous and equivocal song. The song they made was “Tko je onda dirao Pipi”, which was a hit song the same year and even popular today with the younger generations. In 1996, Preradović started collaborating with Zdravko Šljivac who invites him to collaborate in producing an international festival “Modri Biser Rovinja” in 1996 and 1997. For the festival, Preradović writes and produces a duet and first studio recording for Sanja Parmač (today member of Gelato Sisters) and Mario Roth (singer of group Vigor), whilst between 1997 and 2004 working on a popular show Turbo Limach Show. Through-out the 90s’, Preradović collaborates on numerous commercials for Kraš with Vladimir Delač, as well as with Miro Buljan
on Emilija Kokić’s studio album “S moje strane svemira”.

2000s’

In 2000, Preradović produces, in collaboration with Zrinko Tutić, albums for

Diners, Ledo, Pliva , Ožujsko, Franck, as well as on project such as “Papaya Motomusic”. Preradović also collaborates with foreign artists such as the London producer Silvastone, rapper Blak Twang under the pseudonym Slow Mo’T. In 2006, Preradović produces the song “Sve svoje pjesme poklanjam tebi” which was written and performed by Jelena Žnidarić (today known as Zsa Zsa). In 2009, Preradović worked on Arsen Dedić's album Rebus[1] for which Preradović won his second Porin (music award)
.

2010s’ and 2020s’

In 2010, Preradović produces, makes musical arrangements and partially composed studio album for Slovenian singer

Limona, Franck, Ledo ice creams Quattro, etc.), regional (Lidl Serbia, Nektar Pivo) and international (Lidl Portugal, Chernihivske), as well as the author of music for various 3D mapping events. In 2015 and 2016, Preradović was the advisor and musical producer in Jacques Houdek's team in the musical show The Voice Croatia[2]. After their team won in the first season of the show, Preradović started collaborating with The Voice Croatia winner, Nina Kraljić, on her first and second album. In 2016, Preradović was nominated for the Porin (music award award for the Best Musical Arrangement for the song “Zaljuljali smo svijet”[3]. In 2017, Preradović was in the Croatian jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
. Preradović also wrote and produced music for a multimedia project about Croatian historical figures (science, arts and sports) for EXPO 2021 in Dubai.